It occurred to me initially, that if the effect is only really noticeable after flight then the only information that they could usefully communicate by this method would be how recently they had completed a flight. It then occurred to me that bees perform a waggle dance which is believed to instruct other bees in the hive where to find food sources. The electrostatic effect on the antenna would be most effective at this time, and also seems to solve one of my issues with the waggle dance theory, which is that it seems most effective as a visual form of communication when viewed from above, which of course the bees do not do.The electrostatic explanation would work, as the dance could manipulate the antennea in the manner of an operator inputting directions using a joystick.
I think that learning how the biological brain does it before building a learning machine is the wrong way around. I think that the person/team that builds the first genuinely successful learning machine will give the biological researchers a clue about potential mechanisms for learning, it will take a genuine leap of imagination as well as the type of grunt work the DARPA guys are doing.
Escalating the conflict over a five year period is one thing, and sabotaging peace talks to win an election is another. Neither is a good thing certainly, but one being true does not make the other untrue.
Having installed adblock plus for Firefox on my unrooted Nexus 4 I have found that it does not work as well as the equivalent plugin for my desktop browser. Having read through the various reviews, it seems it does work better on a rooted device.
Here they come, Anti-Catholics as only Slashdot can provide.
Who would have thought that nerds might not unanimously believe that an old man voted in by some other old men might not be Gods representative on earth?
That is what it is stated to be though, a theory. If it wasn't a theory then it would be a scientific fact, and there would be (hopefully) no need for argument. It seems a reasonable theory to explore, for instance it's known that in dogs the portion of their brain dedicated to their olfactory sense is substantially larger than that of humans and that leaves less of their brain for other purposes. I really don't understand why there is so much vitriol towards these stories about theories on/. Make a counter argument of course, healthy debate is healthy! Just don't poo-poo the whole idea cause you don't get it.
Are these sites pulled from those ISPs' DNS servers? Do they block the IP address (which could easily be changed)? Non-Brits want to know.
Well when TPB was blocked a few months ago it definitely wasn't DNS(I use open DNS and couldn't access it normally). I think they must be blocking the IP address, easily negated by the various proxy sites that popped up straight away, and which still give easy access to TPB without the next need for TOR or a VPN or any such obsfucation techniques. The same thing will happen with this next round of blocks. The ISPs that grumbled the last time probably aren't bothering this time around, because they are aware of the fact that it won't really affect anyone other than having to alter a couple of bookmarks before carrying on as usual. I'd be willing to bet that there has been no decrease in torrent traffic since the Pirate Bay block, and there will be none this time either.
How would it invalidate science already done? We would have data before and after a comet impact, surely some of the most exciting and informative science ever done. Our current Martian instruments could possibly be destroyed, but that would not invalidate data already recorded, it would simply place it in a different context.
Yes I get that win8 is OK and you can work around the metro screen, it's the direction that I don't like. Optional work around today, walled garden tommorrow, my tactic is to not buy into it and hope that enough people do the same thing.
How is it funny? It's totally played out. You still giggling at knock-knock jokes? Other things that are not funny: "Does it run Linux?", "Flying chairs", "In soviet russia...", anything xkcd.
This sounds about right, it'll be interesting to see how quickly consumers take this up. I haven't met anyone yet who actually wants to use the 'Metro' interface, much less buy thier software throuh the Microsoft store. Of course I've read plenty of 'I use Win 8 and I don't see what the fuss is about' posts in various tech forums, but even from those people I've never heard anyone extolling the virtues of a 'killer' Metro app. Until such things exist, where is the compelling reason to make the switch? I fear the only answer is that we will be steadily 'forced' to use the new interface with subsequent versions of Windows.
I currently use Windows for productivity and gaming, this Metro crap I can see being the reason I move to Linux for my productivity stuff, and if Steam for Linux takes off with enough publishers, possibly my gaming as well.
I've never loved Windows, but I've never really hated it either (well maybe sometimes), it's always been 'good enough' to do what I want it to do, as soon as it starts to tell me how I should interact with my desktop, and where I should buy my software, well thats the point at which it ceases to be useful for me, and probably a great many others.
The question is whether or not it's a marketing strategy. Was someone at Microsoft wise enough to say "Hey, Apple and Nintendo made headlines by limiting supply..."?
How about true is true and false is false. Why do we need all these gray areas of falseness or misleading? It just encourages people to not be truthful.
Not really, check out http://www.politifact.com/, they don't just put the truth-o-meter next to a statement and leave it at that. They provide a factual reason as to why the rating is given. Take a look at the examples on the link I've given and then try to tell me that 'if you were a politician' you would want anything other than 'true' next to a statement of yours.
It may have been before the Disney takeover, but there was an announcement that the last 3 in the trilogy trilogy will not be based on Zahn.
It was after the takeover that this was said, Micheal Arnt has turned in a draft late last year I believe. What it's actually based on (if anything) no-one is saying, understandably I guess.
I pretty much agree with you, and the funny thing is when I clicked on the link offering Mega's response it came up with an SSL error, untrusted certificate, awesome.
Getting a 404 message may be enough to get a forensic investigator or security researcher to move on to the next phishing site, rather than investigating."
The past tense should have been used in that sentence. Any security researcher worth their salt will *not* now move onto the next site upon getting a 404.
You're right, the GGP incorrectly infers that it was Valve that fought this battle and not Oracle. I was quite aware of this, but having followed the story when it first broke, the/. discussion inevitably turned to how the ruling would affect the Steam platform. I was not the AC in question but I am pretty sure that this ruling was the one he was refering to.
Also, if the ruling says that customers have the legal right to resell downloaded software in the EU then surely vendors have an obligation to remove obstacles that prevent customers exercising their legal rights
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It occurred to me initially, that if the effect is only really noticeable after flight then the only information that they could usefully communicate by this method would be how recently they had completed a flight. It then occurred to me that bees perform a waggle dance which is believed to instruct other bees in the hive where to find food sources. The electrostatic effect on the antenna would be most effective at this time, and also seems to solve one of my issues with the waggle dance theory, which is that it seems most effective as a visual form of communication when viewed from above, which of course the bees do not do.The electrostatic explanation would work, as the dance could manipulate the antennea in the manner of an operator inputting directions using a joystick.
His name is apk & he's been posting it for over 4 years. Here's one from 2009:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1206409&cid=27661983
He keeps adding new stuff on so it keeps growing longer and longer as the years pass.
A bit like a Hosts file then? I hate trolls but I do admire that level of dedication.
I think that learning how the biological brain does it before building a learning machine is the wrong way around. I think that the person/team that builds the first genuinely successful learning machine will give the biological researchers a clue about potential mechanisms for learning, it will take a genuine leap of imagination as well as the type of grunt work the DARPA guys are doing.
Escalating the conflict over a five year period is one thing, and sabotaging peace talks to win an election is another. Neither is a good thing certainly, but one being true does not make the other untrue.
Ha Ha, I do exactly that, gets harder as they get older too.
Having installed adblock plus for Firefox on my unrooted Nexus 4 I have found that it does not work as well as the equivalent plugin for my desktop browser. Having read through the various reviews, it seems it does work better on a rooted device.
Even practicing Christians don't unanimously believe that the Pope is God's representative on Earth.
A higher % of Christians believe it than slashdoters. No I don't have a citation, but I'd put my house on it, and yours.
Here they come, Anti-Catholics as only Slashdot can provide.
Who would have thought that nerds might not unanimously believe that an old man voted in by some other old men might not be Gods representative on earth?
That is what it is stated to be though, a theory. If it wasn't a theory then it would be a scientific fact, and there would be (hopefully) no need for argument. It seems a reasonable theory to explore, for instance it's known that in dogs the portion of their brain dedicated to their olfactory sense is substantially larger than that of humans and that leaves less of their brain for other purposes. I really don't understand why there is so much vitriol towards these stories about theories on /. Make a counter argument of course, healthy debate is healthy! Just don't poo-poo the whole idea cause you don't get it.
Yes but I only gave him a tiny crumb.
You're weird.
Are these sites pulled from those ISPs' DNS servers? Do they block the IP address (which could easily be changed)? Non-Brits want to know.
Well when TPB was blocked a few months ago it definitely wasn't DNS(I use open DNS and couldn't access it normally). I think they must be blocking the IP address, easily negated by the various proxy sites that popped up straight away, and which still give easy access to TPB without the next need for TOR or a VPN or any such obsfucation techniques. The same thing will happen with this next round of blocks. The ISPs that grumbled the last time probably aren't bothering this time around, because they are aware of the fact that it won't really affect anyone other than having to alter a couple of bookmarks before carrying on as usual. I'd be willing to bet that there has been no decrease in torrent traffic since the Pirate Bay block, and there will be none this time either.
How would it invalidate science already done? We would have data before and after a comet impact, surely some of the most exciting and informative science ever done. Our current Martian instruments could possibly be destroyed, but that would not invalidate data already recorded, it would simply place it in a different context.
Yes I get that win8 is OK and you can work around the metro screen, it's the direction that I don't like. Optional work around today, walled garden tommorrow, my tactic is to not buy into it and hope that enough people do the same thing.
How is it funny? It's totally played out. You still giggling at knock-knock jokes? Other things that are not funny: "Does it run Linux?", "Flying chairs", "In soviet russia...", anything xkcd.
I've upped my standards. Up yours.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
In Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia who?
In Soviet Rusia, worn out meme laughs at YOU!
This sounds about right, it'll be interesting to see how quickly consumers take this up. I haven't met anyone yet who actually wants to use the 'Metro' interface, much less buy thier software throuh the Microsoft store. Of course I've read plenty of 'I use Win 8 and I don't see what the fuss is about' posts in various tech forums, but even from those people I've never heard anyone extolling the virtues of a 'killer' Metro app. Until such things exist, where is the compelling reason to make the switch? I fear the only answer is that we will be steadily 'forced' to use the new interface with subsequent versions of Windows.
I currently use Windows for productivity and gaming, this Metro crap I can see being the reason I move to Linux for my productivity stuff, and if Steam for Linux takes off with enough publishers, possibly my gaming as well.
I've never loved Windows, but I've never really hated it either (well maybe sometimes), it's always been 'good enough' to do what I want it to do, as soon as it starts to tell me how I should interact with my desktop, and where I should buy my software, well thats the point at which it ceases to be useful for me, and probably a great many others.
The question is whether or not it's a marketing strategy. Was someone at Microsoft wise enough to say "Hey, Apple and Nintendo made headlines by limiting supply..."?
Or maybe Oprah bought some for her friends?
Or are both pilots going to be texting and surfing for pr0n with the assumption that the other one is taking control?
"It must have been a computer glitch which caused us to run out of fuel and crash into the Atlantic on our flight from Houston to Toledo."
You haven't got much faith in people have you? You must be a manager :)
How about true is true and false is false. Why do we need all these gray areas of falseness or misleading? It just encourages people to not be truthful.
Not really, check out http://www.politifact.com/, they don't just put the truth-o-meter next to a statement and leave it at that. They provide a factual reason as to why the rating is given. Take a look at the examples on the link I've given and then try to tell me that 'if you were a politician' you would want anything other than 'true' next to a statement of yours.
I like this scale a lot, thanks for that, would mod you up but I've no mod-points for a change.
It may have been before the Disney takeover, but there was an announcement that the last 3 in the trilogy trilogy will not be based on Zahn.
It was after the takeover that this was said, Micheal Arnt has turned in a draft late last year I believe. What it's actually based on (if anything) no-one is saying, understandably I guess.
I clicked on the link offering Mega's response it came up with an SSL error, untrusted certificate, awesome.
Your browser informed you that it doesn't recognize Mega's CA, awsome. (And not a big deal.)
Yes I know, I just found it mildly ironic...
I pretty much agree with you, and the funny thing is when I clicked on the link offering Mega's response it came up with an SSL error, untrusted certificate, awesome.
Getting a 404 message may be enough to get a forensic investigator or security researcher to move on to the next phishing site, rather than investigating."
The past tense should have been used in that sentence. Any security researcher worth their salt will *not* now move onto the next site upon getting a 404.
You're right, the GGP incorrectly infers that it was Valve that fought this battle and not Oracle. I was quite aware of this, but having followed the story when it first broke, the /. discussion inevitably turned to how the ruling would affect the Steam platform. I was not the AC in question but I am pretty sure that this ruling was the one he was refering to.
Also, if the ruling says that customers have the legal right to resell downloaded software in the EU then surely vendors have an obligation to remove obstacles that prevent customers exercising their legal rights